Abstract

Reviewed by: Transforming Young Adult Services ed. by Anthony Bernier Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor Bernier, Anthony, ed. Transforming Young Adult Services, 2nd ed. ALA, 2020 218p Paper ed. ISBN 978-0-8389-1774-9 $64.99 Karen Coats, former Bulletin reviewer and current Director of the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at University of Cambridge, contributes her chapter, "Diverse Identity in Anxious Times," focusing on psychological and neuroscientific approaches to identity, in the second edition of this collection of critical youth literature studies. Kate McDowell, former Bulletin reviewer, CCB associate, and current Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, also provides an entry, "Storytelling, Young Adults, and Three Paradoxes," which calls for a reframing of librarians' perspectives on who young adults are and what services they need through storytelling. Additionally, two CCB Gryphon Lecturers (Denise E. Agosto and Kafi D. Kumasi) and iSchool alum Jeanie Austin provide contributions to this thoughtful and challenging collection. An index is included. [End Page 284] Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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